[Xen-devel] Getting GUI to work with Xen PVMs

[Priya <pbhat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I am working with Xen 3.0 (I think, though can someone please tell me how I could verify this!)

I want to install a couple of PVM which I could access with a X-terminal. (I don't know if I am using the correct terminology here, so I will elaborate: I want to start my PVM, ssh to them using the -X option [ssh -X user@pvm_ip] from another machine, and be able to run a command like "glxgears", so that a pop up window showing the gears-animation shows up and the console prints the FPS information).

At this point, I already have a PVM installed running a guest OS with kernel 2.6.24-16-xen. However when I try to install "nvidia-glx" for the glxgears API I get the following error:

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root@xen13:~# sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  binutils-static cpp cpp-4.2 libdrm2 libfontenc1 libfreetype6 libgl1-mesa-glx

  libglu1-mesa libhal1 libice6 libpixman-1-0 libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data

  libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6 libxext6

  libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxi6 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6 libxxf86vm1

  linux-restricted-modules-common mdetect x11-xkb-utils xserver-xorg

  xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev

  xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

  xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom

Suggested packages:

  cpp-doc gcc-4.2-locales libfreetype6-dev nvidia-kernel-source

  nvidia-settings xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable gsynaptics

  ksynaptics qsynaptics wacom-tools

Recommended packages:

  displayconfig-gtk libgl1-mesa-dri xfonts-base

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  binutils-static cpp cpp-4.2 libdrm2 libfontenc1 libfreetype6 libgl1-mesa-glx

  libglu1-mesa libhal1 libice6 libpixman-1-0 libsm6 libx11-6 libx11-data

  libxau6 libxaw7 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6 libxext6

  libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxi6 libxkbfile1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6 libxxf86vm1

  linux-restricted-modules-common mdetect nvidia-glx x11-xkb-utils

  xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all

  xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse

  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse

  xserver-xorg-input-wacom

0 upgraded, 42 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

7 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 0B/14.4MB of archives.

After this operation, 41.2MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

Extracting templates from packages: 100%

Preconfiguring packages ...

Setting up x11-common (1:7.3+10ubuntu10.2) ...

Segmentation fault

dpkg: error processing x11-common (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139

Errors were encountered while processing:

 x11-common

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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 I Googled this error and found a number of suggestions. But all the suggested work-arounds lead me to this same error. What am I missing here?

Do I indeed need to install nvidia-glx on my PVM ?

Any advice would be helpful!

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Priya Bhat

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